Jackson's mother, kids to get $1M a year
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Michael Jackson's mother is receiving $86,804 a month from his estate to support herself and her three grandchildren, according to court records released yesterday.
Katherine Jackson, the late pop singer's three young children and unnamed charities are the primary beneficiaries of the estate.
Over the course of a year, Jackson's mother and his children — living with her in her San Fernando Valley home — will get more than $1 million in support from the estate. Katherine Jackson's monthly allowance is $26,804; the children's is $60,000. A judge approved that last month, but the amount was not revealed until yesterday.
AEROSMITH GUITARIST MIFFED AT TYLER
Joe Perry is angry that Aerosmith has been sidelined because of Steven Tyler's tour injury.
The group had to cancel its summer tour after Tyler, 61, fell off the stage while dancing around during a South Dakota concert last month. He broke his left shoulder and needed 20 stitches in his head.
"The tour was building up to be a great tour, and I was pretty ... (upset), you know," Perry said in an interview Wednesday.
The guitarist hasn't even spoken to Tyler recently: "I haven't talked to him in over five weeks. I don't know what's going on with him. I hear he's getting better, but I don't know, I really don't know what's going on with him."
REMBRANDT WORK MAY FETCH UP TO $41M
A Rembrandt portrait that once hung in the Columbia University president's office is expected to sell for up to $41 million at auction.
Christie's auction house said today it will offer "Portrait of a Man, Half-Length With His Arms Akimbo" in London on Dec. 8. Christie's said the painting has not been displayed in public for almost 40 years, and has not been offered at auction since 1930.
The 1658 painting depicts an unknown subject, hands on hips in a defiant pose. It was donated to the New York university in 1958 by George Huntington Hartford II, the art-loving heir to the A&P supermarket chain.
NEWS ANCHOR'S FOWL LANGUAGE GOES VIRAL
A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.
Ernie Anastos of Fox affiliate WNYW was bantering with the weatherman Wednesday night when he cheerfully dropped an F-bomb on the air. What he likely intended to say was "Keep plucking that chicken."
Just before the flub, Anastos told weatherman Nick Gregory, "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast," a play on an old chicken commercial.
Fox isn't laughing, though. The anchor apologized on the air last night.